Itinerary Route Map

Beautiful and colorful Sunday and Tuesday Market of the hill tribal peoples living around Coc LyCommune and the northern region of Bac Ha District with festival atmosphere. Meeting to hill tribal peoples such as: Flower Hmong, Black Zao, Tay, Nung…, who go to the market in their bast traditional costume not only for shopping but mainly for socializing.

Magnificient and stunning landscapes of the mountainous region in the far-north and Chay River Massif.

Day 1: Hanoi – Laocai

20 : 00 pm – Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi railway station for boarding the Express Train to Laocai. Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper wooden cabin.

Picked up at Laocai Railway Station then drive to BacHa market. The beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill – tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people’s simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches… talking to the minorities through the guide’s interpretation. Leave the market for the H’mong King’s house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting BanPho village. Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai.

Reach Sapa late in the afternoon.

Overnight at the hotel in Sapa town

Three stars hotel standard: Royal View Sapa hotel

Address: 34 Cau May St – Sapa – Lao Cai

Day 3: (Monday): Sapa – Ban Ho – Sapa ( B/ L/ D)

Breakfast at the hotel. Start your trip buy take a jeep to Supan village and trek down to Ban Ho village. Have luch at the village then a short walk to visit the village of the Tay ethnic people who have houses on stilts. Back to Sapa.

Dinner at the local restaurant.

Overnight at the hotel in Sapa town

Three stars hotel standard: Royal View Sapa hotel

Address: 34 Cau May St – Sapa – Lao Cai

Day 4: (Tuesday): Sapa – Coc Ly market – Lao Cai ( B/ L/ D )

Breakfast at the hotel then leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H’mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung).

The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another’s experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller among high rock mountains and to be surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. The Fairy Cave is located deeply in the rocks. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority (TrungDo village) by the river.

After the boat trip, visit a small town – Bao Nhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi.